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Securing the Foundations

Nature volume 224, pages 442–444 (1969)Cite this article

Nature soon became the recognized forum for scientific debate in Britain. Few of the competitors of Nature from the nineteenth century have survived, but for many years Nature's finances left much to be desired.

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